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Learning unit quiz

Total questions: 53

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Operant conditioning is a learning method that has to do with

a)

Reinforcement

b)

Imitation

c)

Little Albert experiment

d)

Punishment

2.

Positive reinforcement...

a)

makes someone more likely to repeat an action in the future

b)

hinders someone from repeating an action in the future

c)

strenghtens a behaviour

d)

eliminates a response

3.

Throwing the ball in hopes of getting a strike in bowling is reinforced on a _____ schedule.

a)

fixed ratio

b)

fixed interval

c)

variable interval

d)

variable ratio

4.

If a stimulus is added it is negative.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Nam forgot to do laundry, so he had to wear dirty clothes to class. After being isolated by the classmates, he has been doing his laundry more often. How is Nam being conditioned?

a)

Positive punishment

b)

Positive reinforcement

c)

Negative punishment

d)

Negative reinforcement

6.

The learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses.

a)

Law of effect

b)

primary reinforcer

c)

secondary reinforcer

d)

Operant conditioning

7.

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

a)

clapping after a great concert performance

b)

getting money as payment

c)

running through a maze to get a reward

d)

sweating in hot weather

8.

A participant in a study has been classically conditioned to blink by pairing a tone and a puff of air to the participant's eye. The participant's response (blinking) to the puff of air is the

a)

unconditioned response.

b)

conditioned response.

c)

unconditioned stimulus.

d)

conditioned stimulus.

9.

A consequence that increases the likelihood that the behavior happens again (strengthens)

a)

Reinforcement

b)

Punishment

c)

Latent

d)

Insight

10.

When you give your dog a treat after he uses the bathroom outside. This is an example of:

a)

Positive Reinforcement

b)

Negative Reinforcement

c)

Positive Punishment

d)

Negative Punishment

11.

Reinforcement is anything that strengthens or increases the frequency of a preceding response.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

When you put on your seat belt to make the annoying sound go away. What is this an example of ?

a)

Positive Reinforcement

b)

Negative Reinforcement

c)

Positive Punishment

d)

Negative Punishment

13.

What is operant conditioning?

a)

A type of learning in which we make an association between two events by repeated exposure.

b)

A type of learning about the relationship between behavior and its consequences This relationship affects our future actions.

14.

Schedule of reinforcement in which the number of responses required for reinforcement is always the same.

a)

Fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement

b)

shaping

c)

punishment by removal

d)

Variable interval schedule of reinforcement

15.

When the police give you a ticket for driving over the speed limit.

a)

Positive Reinforcement

b)

Negative Reinforcement

c)

Positive Punishment

d)

Negative Punishment

16.

My dad puts on his seatbelt to make his car stop beeping; this is an example of:

a)

positive reinforcement

b)

negative reinforcement

c)

conditioned reinforcement

d)

unconditioned reinforcement

17.

Peter is the best reader in class with most stars. He was given them whenever completing homework correctly. How is Peter being conditioned?

a)

Positive punishment

b)

Positive reinforcement

c)

Negative punishment

d)

Negative reinforcement

18.

Any reinforcer that becomes reinforcing after being paired with a primary reinforcer, such as praise, tokens, or gold stars.

a)

Primary reinforcer

b)

positive reinforcement

c)

Secondary reinforcer

d)

Law of effect

19.
What is a reinforcer?
a)

Anything that decreases the frequency of a behaviour

b)
Anything that the subject likes 
c)
Anything that the subject will work for 
d)

Anything that follows a behaviour and increases the likelihood of a behaviour occurring

20.

SKINNER'S PIGEON OR RAT BOX EXPERIMENTS ARE AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT TYPE OF CONDITIONING?

a)

CLASSICAL

b)

OPERANT

21.

Anything in the environment that one can respond to is a:

a)

Reinforcer

b)

Response

c)

Discriminator

d)

Stimulus

22.

In Watson's famous research with Little Albert, the conditioned response was:

a)

the rat

b)

the loud noise

c)

fear of the rat

d)

fear of the loud noise

23.

In Ivan Pavlov's demonstration of classical conditioning, what was the UR?

a)

Meat Powder

b)

Bell

c)

Salivation to the meat powder

d)

Salivation to the sound of the bell

24.

Seals in an aquarium will repeat behaviors, such as slapping and barking, that prompt people to toss them a herring. This example best illustrates:

a)

discrimination

b)

observational learning

c)

positive reinforcement

d)

spontaneous recovery

25.

Students in Ms. Dean's fourth-grade class receive a star on a chart for every book they read. Which schedule of reinforcement does this represent?

a)

fixed ratio

b)

variable ratio

c)

fixed interval

d)

variable interval

26.

Maggie cries and throws a temper tantrum at the store and her mother ignores her and does not give her any attention. Maggie is less likely to have a tantrum the next time she is at the store because that behavior was:

a)

punished

b)

reinforced

c)

discrminated

d)

shaped

27.

Stan touched the hot burner on the stove. It burned him and he cried out. The next day when he just saw the red burner, he cried out. Crying out when he saw the hot burner is:

a)

a conditioned response

b)

an unconditioned response

c)

a conditioned stimulus

d)

an unconditioned stimulus

28.
John Watson and his colleague, Rosalie Rayner, offered a live white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the _____________ in their study.
a)
discriminative stimulus
b)
conditioned stimulus
c)
unconditioned stimulus
d)
extinguished stimulus
29.

Dogs stood on an electrified floor. Group 1 was shocked and jumped to a safe spot. Group 2 was shocked but chained and unable to jump. Even when later unchained, group 2 dogs did not try and leave the electrified floor.

a)

avoidance learning

b)

learned helplessness

c)

escapism

d)

denial

30.

A particular group of brain cells seems to provide a basis for observational learning. Researchers call these specialized cells...

a)

Efferent neurons

b)

Afferent neurons

c)

Mirror neurons

d)

Motor neurons

e)

Schwann cells

31.
Marie works in a dress factory where she earns $10 for each three dresses she hems. Marie is paid on a
a)
variable ratio
b)
fixed interval
c)
fixed ratio
d)
variable interval
32.

If a child is offered a reward after they earn five A’s on her homework assignments. After her fifth A on a homework assignment, she gets to pick out a new toy, what type of intermittent reinforcement does this display?

a)

Variable Ratio Schedule - VR

b)

Fixed Interval Schedule - FI

c)

Variable Interval Schedule - VI

d)

Fixed Ratio Schedule - FR

33.

Which is the defintion of extinction?

a)

No longer an organism species exists

b)

Getting rid of an unconditioned response

c)

Diminishing a conditioned response

d)

Only answering to the stimulus

34.

When Olivia makes rude noises at the dinner table, she gets her mouth washed out with soap. She doesn't make rude noises that often anymore. This is an example of

a)

positive reinforcement

b)

negative reinforcement

c)

positive punishment

d)

negative punishment

35.

A professional baseball player getting a hit approximately every third time at bat is an example of what schedule of reinforcement?

a)

fixed ratio

b)

variable ratio

c)

fixed interval

d)

variable interval

36.

The reappearance after a period of time of a conditioned response that has been subjected to extinction

a)

spontaneous recovery

b)

stimulus discrimination

c)

conditioned response (CR)

d)

stimulus generalization

37.

The law of effect states that if there is a pleasant stimulus-response reinforced, the behavior will increase, and the opposite is true if an unpleasant consequence is given as punishment. Who came up with this law?

a)

Edward Thorndike

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

B.F. Skinner

d)

John Garcia

38.

Learned taste aversions are an example of classical conditioning. They were first discovered by whom?

a)

Edward Thorndike

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

BF Skinner

d)

John Garcia

39.

Seen here, this Bobo doll experiment proved his ideas about observational learning and modeling. When kids watch adults take their anger out on the doll, they copied the behavior. Name the researcher.

a)

BF Skinner

b)

Edward Tolman

c)

Albert Bandura

d)

Wolfgang Kohler

40.

BF Skinner found that pigeons could learn to peck a button to get food. Then, he found that they could peck a button when they saw a tree. This was amazing because he was showing them all sorts of trees, even ones they'd never seen before. Pigeons understood the CONCEPT of what a tree was. This is called...

a)

Observational Learning

b)

Latent Learning

c)

Insight Learning

d)

Abstract learning

41.

Edward Tolman had three groups of rats. Group A got reinforced for running the maze. B did not. C did not at first, but in the second half of trials, started to. What Group C proved was that the rats had knowledge of the maze, but needed some reinforcement to achieve their full learning potential. Because their learning was "hidden", Tolman called it...

a)

Observational Learning

b)

Latent Learning

c)

Abstract Learning

d)

Insight Learning

42.

Of the following, which is essential for operant conditioning to occur?

a)

extinction

b)

a behavioral consequence

c)

a stimulus substitution

d)

Spontaneous recovery

e)

Delayed conditioning

43.

Ms. Hoffer uses Dolphin dollars as positive reinforcement for her class. Dolphin dollars can be spent that the classroom store to by pencils and things. Dolphin dollars are...

a)

Primary reinforcers

b)

Secondary reinforcers

c)

Negative reinforcers

d)

Vicarious reinforcers

e)

Aversive reinforcers

44.

What is a consequence that improves a behavior that it follows?

EX: Praising a student for not running in the hallway.

a)

Antecedent

b)

Behaving

c)

Reinforcer

d)

Conditioning

45.

I suppress behaviors. An example of me is taking away recess for a student that is misbehaving. What am I?

a)

Reinfocement

b)

Premack Principle

c)

Cueing

d)

Punishment

46.

What was Albert Bandura's Experiment?

a)

Little Albert Experiment

b)

Bobo Doll Experiment

c)

Harlow's Monkey Experiment

d)

The Stanford Prison Experiment

47.

When did Albert Bandura carry out his experiment?

a)

1952

b)

1969

c)

1961

d)

1971

48.

What is the Bobo Doll study?

a)

Adults acted violently, children modeled it

b)

Children just wanted to hit the doll

c)

Children were told to hit the doll

49.

Who is the "founder" of behaviorism?

a)

Ivan Pavlov

b)

John Watson

c)

B.F. Skinner

d)

Albert Bandura

50.

Who conducted the little albert experiment?

a)

B.F. Skinner

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

John Watson

d)

Albert Bandura

51.

What theory did Albert Bandura create?

a)

Classical Coniditioning

b)

Operant Conditioning

c)

Observational Learning

d)

Law of Effect

52.

Getting a free Subway sandwich on your 5th purchase is an example of what?

a)

Fixed- Ratio

b)

Variable Ratio

c)

Fixed interval

d)

Variable Interval

53.

Taking away a students phone

a)

Positive Reinforcer

b)

Negative Reinforcer

c)

Positive Punishment

d)

Negative Punishment